Cigarette.



O. A. OWEN.

CIGARETTE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC-22,1915.

mmma. Patented Dec. 26,1916.

WITNESSES INVENTOH To all whom it may concern Be it known that .1 OLE A. OWEN, a c1t1-- York city,

"" OLE A. OWEN, OF NEW YORK, N. 'Y.

CIGARETTE.

Application filed December 22, 1915. Serial No.

zen of the United States, residing at" New in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Manufacture of Cigarettes, of which the followifig is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. v c This invention relates to a new and useful article of manufacture, comprisin a cigarette, having permanently attac ed thereto a holder or socket adapted to receive the butt of a partially consumed cigarette,

,whereby the latter may be entirely consumed, and at the same time may serve to part obvious and in light the new cigarette in the holder of which it has been placed.

The invention also seeks to produce an article "of the character described in Which a minimum 'amount of wrapper additional to that necessary to form a cigarette of the ordinary type is required. I

Other objects of the invention will be in part pointed out hereinafter.

' The invention accordingly consists in the features of construction, combination, of elements and arrangement of parts which will be exemplified .in the construction hereinafter set forth, and the scope of the application of which will be indicated in the claims.

In. the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows one of the various possible embodiments of the invention, while Figs. 2,? and 4: show various modifications thereof.

Referring. now to the drawings in which similar reference .characters are applied to similar parts throughout the several views, 2 indicates the combustible tubular wrapper of a cigarette filled with tobacco 3 throughout the major portion of its length. The mouth end is indicated at 4, and at the other,

or outer, end an empty portion is left, forming a socket slipped the end of a cigarette or the butt of a partially consumed cigarette. Owing to the tapering usually produced at the mouth end of a cigarette which has been partly consumed, it will be found that the butt of such a cigarette may be conveniently inserted into the socket, even though the former is normally of the same diameter Specification of Letters Patent.

kinds of cigarettes.

hereinbefore set forth or holder 5, into which may be Patented Dec. 26, 1916. 68,132.

'as the wall of the socket. It may be found practice, however, to form the convenient in socket slightly inclined outwardly to perm 1t the ready insertion of the butts of some Such a construction is shown in Fig. 2, inwhich the cigarette is provided with a flaring socket5 Which may be given any desired degree of tapering.

The'cigarette mayalso be given a taper at the mouth end, so as to increase the adaptability of convenient insertion into the socket or holder of a fresh cigarette. Cigarettes possessing-this feature are shown in Figs. 3 -and 4. The mouth end 4 may be given any desired taper, while the socket atthe other end may be of the construction shown in Fig. 1, in which it is of the same diameter as the wrapper, or it may be of the construction shown in Fig. 2, in which it is provided with a flaring socket.

It will be seen that in each instance the cigarette comprises a portion normally filledwith tobacco, and a. socket at the outer end adapted at times to retain an end of another cigarette. By forming the socket as an eX- tension of the wrapper of the filled portion of the cigarette, the complete article may be made in one portion, and the socket portion will be readily consumed simultaneously with the butt of anOth er cigarette which has been inserted therein. of the. wrapper will be so small that its burning willproduce no discomfort to the user, as its walls areformed of the same thin paper as the body portion of the wrapper. In order to insure that the socket be kept free of any tobacco that might tendto fall therein the tobacco at this end of the cigarette may be more closely packed.

It will therefore'be seen that there is pro-' .vided a devicewell adapted to accomplish among others all of the ends and objects in an exceedingly simple and eihcient manner, and that structurally considered the device is of the great-- est possiblesimplicity and is welladapted to be made at a minimum cost.

As many changes could be made in the above construction and many apparently widely diflerent embodiments of this invention could be made without departingjfrom the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall limiting sense.

This extra portion 116- be interpreted as illustrative and not in a 'vention, I might be 1. An articles of manufacture comprising a cigarette having at its outer end a com-- bustible cigarette holder.

2. An article of manufacture comprising a cigarette with a tubular combustible, wrapper inclosing tobacco, outer end of the cigarette extending out- Wardly beyond the tobacco, and forming a combustible socket, retainthe end of another cigarette.

3. An art cle of manufacture comprising of the inventionherein described the wrapper at the adapted to receive and a cigarette with a tubular combustible wrapper inclosing tobacco, the wrapper at the outer ,end of the cigarette extending outwardly and flaring beyond the tobacco, and forming'a combustible socket adapted to receive and retain the end of another cigarette.

4. An article of manufacture comprising a cigarette with a tubular combustible wrapper inclosing tobacco, the wrapper at the outer end of the cigarette extendingoutwardly beyond the tobacco, and. forming a combustible socket adapted to receive and.

retain the end of another cigarette, the inner end of the cigarette being tapered so as'to form a mouth end of decreased diameter.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses.

' OLE A. OWEN. Witnesses:

H. M. SEAMANS,

M. A. MEYER. l 

